Buggy-top-bow protector.



N FREDERICK. BUGGY TOP BOW PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED APR.15, 1914.

PatentedMar. 9, 1915.

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NOAH FREDERICK, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

BUGGY-TOP-BOW PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 9, 1915..

Application filed April 15, 1914. Serial No. 831,959.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NOAH FREDERICK, a siding at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buggy-Top-Bow Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, generally relates to buggy tops supporting means, and primarily has for its object to provide a simple, ineXpensive and practical appliance or attachment that may, without necessitating any changes in the structure or arrangement of the ordinary types of the bows, or other parts of a buggy top, be connected therewith and is especially designed to produce an improved yielding support for sustaining the bugg top when in a folded position and in such a manner that the buggy top strains and the leverage of the buggy top bows is so taken care of that the danger of bending or flexing the bows is practically overcome.

My invention also seeks to provide an attachment for buggy bars that can be readily applied to the ordinary type of buggy tops, which effectively serves its intended purposes, and is not easily displaced or broken under ordinary usage.

lVith other objects in View, and hereinafter to be explained, my invention consists in the peculiar construction and novel arrangement of the parts hereinafter fully explained, specifically pointed out in the appended claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of my invention with so much of a buggy top and with its main supporting means necessary to illustrate the practical application of my invention. Fig. 2, is a cross section of the attachment that forms the essential feature of my invention. Fig. 3, is a longitudinal section thereof on the line 33 on Fig. 2. Fig. 4; is a detail view showing the clip member before being bent into shape. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective View of the saddle or seat block. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the clip bar with the yielding members. Fig.

' 7 is a detail perspective view of the how confined to the attachment shown as applied to the buggy top, and which I shall now describe in detail.

The body of the attachment is in the nature of a common form of clip, which in my construction is formed of a fiat sheet of steel plate of suitable length and width whose ends are formed with threaded extensions whereby to produce threaded clip shanks 10 that receive the clamping bar 2, presently again referred to. Cooperating with the clip band or plate 1 is a clip bar which in practice is preferably one-half inch wide and three-sixteenths of an inch thick, and the ends thereof are apertured as at 20 for the passage of the threaded clip shanks 10, before referred to.

3 designates stout bow steel spring members that are carried by the bar 2 and are positioned so they extend laterally therefrom, and in a direction at right angles to an imaginary line connecting the apertures 20, whereby to extend parallel with the longitudinal line of the buggy top bows 5, the reason for which will presently appear.

6 designates, what I term, a yielding top prop or bow spring support for the bugg top, and it comprises a member formed of spring steel preferably three-fourths of an inch wide and one-fourth of an inch thick, one end of which, hereinafter termed a front end, has a half turn, so as to form a pivot or fulcrum eye 60, which, when the members are assembled for use fits onto the pivot bolt 15, upon which the front or bearing iron 16 is fulcrumed, the said iron having the front connection for all of the buggy bows 5.

8 designates a saddle member, in practice malleable cast iron, and the said member has vertical side extensions 80 formed with grooves 81 for readily slipping upon and between the threaded shanks of the clip member after the latter has been formed up and slipped over the lowermost one of the buggy bars 5. The saddle block 8 has a concaved seat 82 that extends lengthwise thereof whereby to snugly receive and form a seat for the under side of the lowermost bow 5, it also having a pendent member 85 that eX- tends over the sides of the rear end of the spring prop 6 which latter extends through the clip 1, rests upon the short spring seat 3, and under block 8, as is clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings, by reference to which it will be also seen that when the clip nuts are screwed home, the clip member through its seat block 8 and the spring 3 clamps the prop spring 6 in such a manner that the several parts are firmly held to their adjusted positions with the member 8 acting as a yielding support for sustaining the Weight of the buggy top. It will be .observed that since the cast metal saddle block hasside grooves to fit over the inner faces of the threaded shanks of the clip, that it is held from working out of the clip and furthermore since it has pendent side members that straddle the prop support 6 the latter is positively held in a true bearing upon the bow seat 3 and as engaging the under side of the metal seat block, the said peculiar construction of the saddle block and its connections with the vclip serving to hold the yielding prop member from rattling or loose movement relatively to the said clip member and the buggy bows.

From the foregoing, it is apparent that my invention is simple in construction, and is capable of being readily applied to the ordinary forms of buggy bows without requiring any changes whatever inv their o0n struction.

What I claim is:

1. An attachment for buggy tops comprising a spring metal support having an eye at one end for pivotally connecting with the buggy bows pivot bolt, a clip member As a .new article of manufacture, an.

attachment for buggy tops comprising a spring sheet metal member having its opposite ends turned to form threaded shanks, the said member being bent to a clip shape whereby to fit .over a buggy bow, a clip bar remorably engaging the said shanks, means for holding the clip bar on the shanks, a

bow spring member secured to the top at one end, yielding members projected in opposite directions from said vclip bar, the free end of said bow spring member being projected between said shanks over said yielding members, said yielding members serving to press said bow spring member toward the top prop. v

NOAH FREDERICK. Witnesses:

Con A. MGKENXA, G. S. TREDWAY.

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Washington, D. ,C. 

